SSX Blur First Hands-On

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The Wii is already off to a rollicking success all across the world mostly thanks to strong first-party game offerings. Wii Sports and The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess have been more than enough game to keep rabid Wii-ners satisfied up until now. Of course, all of that will change as we enter a lull in the release schedule approaching Spring 2007. Sure, Nintendo has a few first-party offerings slated to fill in the gaps, but the burden of supporting the system is going to fall on third-parties over next few months.

Enter EA. While the publishing giant has been known in the past to deliver lackluster ports to Nintendo systems -- much to the ire of diehard Nintendo fans -- its approach to Wii development has noticeably defied this trend. EA has seen fit to fill the lonely winter months of 2007 with some solid Wii-specific content. Although, EA has a slew of interesting games lined up to be released on the Wii, the premiere title among these is without a doubt SSX Blur.

SSX Blur is an exclusive Wii version of the popular snowboarding franchise. With SSX Blur, EA set out to combine the best aspects of older SSX games into one nice little package, neatly wrapped up with some solid Wiimote-controls. We recently got a chance to get our hands on a Wiimote and hit the slopes with SSX Blur, and we can state with some degree of certainty that it is a game to watch out for this spring.

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